medjuck

I think that track was originally on the Mercer label. I'm not sure who, if anyone, owns the rights and more important, the masters of the Mercer material.

Well I know Roach and Pettiford played with the band but did Rodney?

So it goes.

A couple of times in the notes Loren Schoenberg refers to the guitarists playing "broken chords". What exactly does he mean? (Where he mentions them in regard to Danny Barker I hear Barker playing every note of the chord separately but where he talks about Allen Reuss playing behind Mildred Bailey I just hear regular chords.)

It's done. I think it will be released this fall (only a year late). It has no added performances, but it is in stereo and looks and sounds great.

As I remember it, Mingus was famous for haranguing noisy audiences. I thnk it was Charles who announced to a talkative crowd: "Tell me where you work and I'll come and bother you some day."

I'm past the half way mark on Against the Day. Only 500 pages to go.

Then why don't they go to a club that doesn't have serious music?

I saw Archie Shepp around the time of Mama Too Tight and during a brief pause in one of the free numbers somone yelled out "One more time!". As I remember it a lot of people left during the performance but to do so they had to pass right in front of the band. I thought it was a great piece of theater. Of course I thoght that about a lot of things in my life at the time.

In a different thread Larry Kart wrote: " far more alarming and revealing to me ... are the experiences I've had in jazz clubs where people pay substantial cover charges to hear name acts and then proceed to talk at a fairly high volume level throughout the performance. " I began listening to jazz in clubs in the early 60's and I've rarely been to club where the noise factor wasn't distracting. As well as talk you often have the added din of cash registers, glasses being washed and drinks being served. Outdoor venues and large arenas are even worse and some rock fans seem to think they aren't enjoying the music unless they're screaming while the music's being played. About the only places where audiences are reasonably quiet while the music's being played are small concert halls. I think I may be in the minority in letting this bother me. I've embarrassed my son by admonishing people in a club who were chatting away during a performance by a rather quiet local singer song writer. (Though I gained some respect from him when the owner of the club suggested that those who wanted to talk go outside.) I don't think you have to sit reverentially while int he audience and I don't agree with a review I remember reading where the reviewer complained that the audience at a Joshua Redman performance acted like a crowd at a basketball game with their whoops after every solo-- sounds like fun to me. But what is it with people who pay to hear music and then don't listen? (Of course some of them have been immortalized on record . Maybe that's what they're hoping for: recognition.)

Is this available on DVD?

I saw it last night. It's ok but not as interesting as most reviews I've read make it out to be. Trouble is that the original grindhouse movies took themselves seriously but these don't , so they seem a bit condescending-- especially the Rodriguez.

BTW The first releases are now available at my local Costco!

Back from tour everybody. Thanks to all the board members for coming out. medjuck, how did a guy like you end up marrying such a beautiful woman? You must be rich. It certainly couldn't be your looks or sense of humor. Well when we met I was a lowly college teacher, who was already bald. As she said in a film she made for our 25th anniversary, she thought I was smart and funny. She also once told our kids that she could tell I liked women and many men don't really.

Hel-LO.... OK I admit it: I've never heard of Onzy Matthews but I guess I have to get this to complete my Dupree Bolton collection (i.e. adding to the 2 cds I have ). Also Like to get as much Ray Crawford as I can.

I think the SF response was fitting. My wife compared it to a Sun Ra concert I'd dragged her to 30 years ago. (It was at a Country and Western bar in Toronto). She didn't get it then but loved Reptet

Seeing Reptet tonight!

I didn't get that e-mail till yesterday but the box arrived today!

Probably correct. The first tape form LA in the ARchive includes Spanier but it seems to be with the qunitet including Ornette. Funny I heard Spanier in Montreal in the early sixties and my memory is that he was not very avant garde.

Think some stuff with Herbie is in the archive.

That was probably Herbie Spanier(sp?) a fellow Canadian. When saw Imagine the Sound a cojuple of weeks ago I was struck by how much I liked Bley's playing in it. (And that was after some spectacular Cecil Taylor.) BTW Is there a cd available of his group with Ornette?

David Sanburn. I wonder if that was the same night he played with Leonard Cohen on that show. I think it was on instead of SNL one summer.

Hey they're way better than Sony. Remember how often the Miles boxes were delayed.

It was Mike Bernard. (You used his example for-- what I thought-- was a gratuitous attack on poor old Oscar Peterson.) BTW I thought on the very first disc there was a one great unknown (to me at least) cut that deserves to be considered a classic: May Irwin singing: "When You Ain't Got No Money You Needn't Come Around" from 1907! I can see that song being revived by some savvy contemporary singer.

The Complete Freddie Webster (though Ghost has made me an awfully good collection).